Free book! Cloud Consistency with Azure Resource Manager

This book is aiming to get you started with Azure Resource
Manager and covers many examples on how to author templates, use functions as
well as exploring many of the other aspects of Azure Resource Manager

Here’s a snapshot of the content:

Acknowledgements:

About the authors

Kristian Nese | @KristianNese

Flemming Riis |
@FlemmingRiis

Background

Introduction

Microsoft Azure

Microsoft Azure Stack

Cloud Computing and Modern Application Modeling

Step 1 – Service Templates

Step 2 – VM Roles

Step 3 – Azure Resource Manager

Summary

IaaS v2 – Azure Resource Manager API replaces Service
Management API

Consistent Management Layer

Azure PowerShell

Azure CLI

Azure Resource Manager Rest API

Azure Portal

Azure Resource Manager Templates

Deploying with Azure Resource Manager

Where can we deploy our Azure Resource Manager
Templates

Explaining the template format

Authoring the first Azure Resource Manager Template

Adding parameter file

Visual Studio

PowerShell

Azure Portal

Idempotency with Azure Resource Manager

Resource Explorer

Imperative Deployment with Azure Resource Manager

Advanced Azure Resource Manager Templates

Functions

Extensions

Write once, deploy anywhere

Instead of jumping right into the authoring experience and
learn how an ARM template is constructed, we wanted to give you enough context
to know what’s going on in the industry, what is changing and how you should
prepare yourself to take advantage of this new way of managing your cloud
resoueces.

If you have been playing around with Azure already, you are
probably very familiar with some of the content already. If you are new, and
especially interested in Microsoft Azure Stack, you should be glad to know that
everything you learn in this book can be addressed there as well.

It has been a great experience writing this book, covering
some of the most interesting stuff we have available right now, and I have to
emphasize that this book will also be updated as we move forward to keep up
with all the great things that is happening in the Microsoft Cloud.